This is a reconstructing shrine gate(torii), Kamiogi, Suginami, Tokyo. There was big shrine gate here, but it was collapsed by the quake.
Around here, All seems as usual as before the quake. Some houses were damaged ( And my house's gate also was collupsed ), and most of them were repaired.
But poor people can't repair their house's damage yet, but June is rainy season. In August and Septenber, some typhoon will hit Tokyo. They can't live in damaged house, so now, they are repairing their home.
If their houses were more damaged enough to be registered as collupsed or half collupsed by Suginami city office, they can repair their home with public support. But unfortunately, their houses were not damaged enough to public support but enough to them can't live in there.
Some old people sold their house and land, then moved to apartment in another area, because they have not enough monay to repair their house, so they had to throw away their familiar house and area.
Thanks for sharing this story. It's sad that some people cannot afford to repair their homes. I thought that everyone in Japan are required to have earthquake insurance. Can poor people without enough money to repair their houses get money from the city or country government? I would learn more if the photographs had captions describing them. Also, the photos could have links to google map of the area. I would have learned more if your story included short interviews with people from the neighborhood about their reaction to the earthquake and cost of repairing their homes. collupsed>collapsed monay>money
ReplyDeleteAt first, I have to tell you that my camera's GPS is not so exactly. The links to google map can't show the point where the photo was taken.
ReplyDeleteJapan have many quakes, but it is not compulsory to have quake insurance. And insurance company is not selling eagarly them, because once a big quake occurs they have to pay large amount of insurance.
And I have to tell about the people live in this area. In this area, ageing population is progressed very much. Most of inhabitants are aged, and they are living on their pension not enough to become more than breadline. So leave their home and live on welfare is not so bad selection for them.
To interview them are a little difficult for me, because I'm wheelchaired and to reach the entrance of those home is a little difficult.